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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Yes," exclaimed Pepe; "and by the Virgin of Atocha let us not delay here. There is no time for sentiment the villain must not escape us. Justice, so long evaded, must now have its due." "As God wills!" rejoined Fabian. The three friends now held a rapid council as to what course was best to be taken.
"It was a rich man then some powerful person whom you denounced?" "Yes; a grand senor. It was the old story of the pot of clay broken against the pot of iron. But the desert here has no distinctions; and, by the Virgin of Atocha! I shall prove that before many suns have gone over my head.
My Spaniard took my bridle, held his own between his teeth, for his right hand held the bloodstained bundle, and we went off at lightning speed. "'I could not see the smallest object by which to retrace the road we came by. At dawn I found myself close by my own door, and the Spaniard fled towards the Atocha gate.
The gang turned back, hurdled a wall that stood in their path and took refuge in the portico of the Observatory on the Atocha side. The wind was blowing from the Guadarrama range so that they were in the lee. For the afternoon and part of the evening the rain came pouring down; they passed the time chatting about women, thefts and crimes.
Being a farmer, his voice called forth water from the parched land, and angels helped his oxen to plough the fields. Save the effigy of the Virgin de la Almudena, and the life of San Isidro, Madrid has no ecclesiastical history, the Virgin de la Atocha has been forgotten, but she is only a duplicate of her sister virgin.
He then opened his eyes upon the miraculous image of Atocha, and vowed that, if he recovered, he would give to the Virgin, at four different shrines in Spain, gold plate of four times his weight; and silver plate of seven times his weight, when he should rise from his couch.
At that very hour a vast multitude was assisting at what the polished academician calls a "more solemn ceremony," the bearing of the Virgin of the Atocha to the Convent of San Domingo el Real, to see if peradventure pleased by the airing, she would send rain to the parching fields. The world speedily did justice to his name. Even before his death it had begun.
The miraculous image of the Virgin of Atocha, in embroidering garments for whom, Spanish royalty, male and female, has spent so many an hour ere now, was brought in solemn procession and placed on an altar at the foot of the prince's bed; and in the afternoon there entered, with a procession likewise, a shrine containing the bones of a holy anchorite, one Fray Diego, "whose life and miracles," says Olivarez, "are so notorious:" and the bones of St.
They disappear from the Alcala to break out with renewed virulence in the avenue of Atocha, and girdle the city at last with a belt of booths. While they last they give great animation and spirit to the street life of the town. You can scarcely make your way among the heaps of gaudy shawls and handkerchiefs, cheap laces and illegitimate jewels, that cumber the pavement.
The statement of the troops employed against it will be the best measure of its importance. There were some who imagined that the hosts of Don Carlos might crown the hills of Vallecas, and present themselves before the gate of Atocha to the consternation of Madrid, as did those of his predecessor in the September of 1837. But the Federals of the south did not mind.
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